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Working Paper

Firms' Global Engagement and Management Practices

Authors

  • Görg
  • H.
  • Hanley
  • A.

Publication Date

JEL Classification

F2 L2 M2

Key Words

exporting

global engagement

Management practices

outward investment

Related Topics

International Trade

Foreign Direct Investments

Companies

Germany

We investigate whether firms’ "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. We use new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of management practices in Germany. We calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013), which indicate how structured management is in a given firm. We find that switching into exporting, and to a lesser degree opening up affiliates abroad, is related to improving management performance in the sense of having more structured management practices.

Kiel Institute Experts

  • Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D.
    Research Director
  • Prof. Aoife Hanley, Ph.D.
    Kiel Institute Researcher

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